Author wins $30,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship
Friday, 11 November 2016
Author Cathy Craigie has been awarded the $30,000 NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship for 2016. Craigie will use the fellowship to research the northern NSW story of the Seven Sisters, in collaboration...
Australian Romance Readers Convention authors announced
Friday, 11 November 2016
Over 70 authors will participate in the 2017 Australian Romance Readers Convention (ARRC), which runs from 24-26 February in Melbourne. Headlining the festival are US authors Courtney Milan and Kristen Callihan,...
Single-sentence novel ‘Solar Bones’ wins 2016 Goldsmiths Prize
Thursday, 10 November 2016
In the UK, Irish author Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones (Tramp Press) has won the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize for recognising fiction ‘at its most novel’, reports the Bookseller. Solar Bones is...
McGuire appointed SWF artistic director
Thursday, 10 November 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has appointed Michaela McGuire as its artistic director, taking over the curation of the 2017 festival. McGuire will leave her role as director and co-CEO...
Macquarie Uni announces new poetry prize for young writers
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Macquarie University has announced the inaugural Sophia Nugent-Siegal Poetry Prize for writers aged 30 and under. The prize is in honour of poet Sophia Nugent Siegal, who died in 2014...
KROC Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of this year’s Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Pig...
Geelong Library wins National Architecture Award
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre was awarded the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for public architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2016 National Architecture Awards. The library, which was...
Authors, unions join first national protest against UK library cuts
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
In the UK, librarians, authors and major unions joined a protest march at the British Library to campaign against cuts to library services, reports the Guardian. An estimated 1800 protesters...
ALIA holds gala dinner at Parliament House
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) held a gala dinner at Parliament House in Canberra on 7 November to celebrate public libraries. ALIA produced a ‘Ten ways that libraries...
Kindle Unlimited launches in Australia
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Amazon’s ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited has been made available in Australia. Amazon is charging A$13.99 per month for the Australian Kindle Unlimited service, which has a library of almost...
Thien wins Canada’s Giller Prize
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
In Canada, Madeleine Thien has won the C$100,000 (A$97,050) Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta), chosen from a shortlist of six. The judges...
TitlePage to return to the APA
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Direct management of the Australian book industry’s price and availability service TitlePage will return to the Australian Publishers Association (APA), the organisation has announced in a statement. TitlePage has been...
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2016 winners announced
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced on 8 November in Canberra. The winners in each category are: Fiction (joint winners) The Life of Houses (Lisa...
Booksellers NZ proposes World Booksellers Conference for Dunedin in 2018
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Booksellers NZ has made a formal proposal for the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) to hold its 2018 conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. The two-day conference would be held...
European Network for Literary Translation launched
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Twenty-two literary bodies from 19 European countries have come together to launch ENLIT, the European Network for Literary Translation, reports Publishing Perspectives. Launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair, ENLIT will...
Booktopia wins ‘Smart Company’ top retailer award
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Online bookseller Booktopia has won the top retailer award at the Smart Company Smart50 category awards. Booktopia was chosen from a shortlist that also included: Noosa Chocolate, Factory, Adore Beauty,...
Macquarie Dictionary launches podcast
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Macquarie Dictionary has launched a new podcast that investigates the histories behind Australian words and phrases. Word for Word will go behind-the-scenes with dictionary editors and interview some of Australia’s...
‘Kirkus’ Prize 2016 winners announced
Monday, 7 November 2016
US publication Kirkus Reviews has announced the winners of its annual literary prize. The fiction prize was awarded to C E Morgan’s The Sport of Kings (Fourth Estate), an ‘epic...
KOALAs 2016 winners announced
Friday, 4 November 2016
The 2016 winners of New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, the Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), have been announced. The winners and honour books in each category are:...
2016 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards nominees announced
Friday, 4 November 2016
The nominees for the 2016 AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. The nominees in each category, are: Best New Author Caroline Beecham Melanie Coles Athena Daniels Diane Demetre Marilyn...
Twentieth Century Fox options rights to ‘Nevermoor’
Friday, 4 November 2016
Twentieth Century Fox has optioned the film rights to Australian author Jessica Townsend’s forthcoming middle-grade novel Nevermoor, the first book in a trilogy acquired by Hachette US, UK and Australia...
Amazon introduces illustrated children’s stories app
Friday, 4 November 2016
In the US, Amazon has introduced a new app featuring short, illustrated stories designed to look like text-chat for young readers, reports Publishers Weekly. The app, offered at an introductory price...
First authors announced for Perth Writers Festival 2017
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The first guests have been announced for the 2017 Perth Writers Festival, which runs from 23-26 February. UK author Ben Rawlence will give the opening address on the issue of...
Memoir ‘Learning Polish’ wins T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Jay Martin has won the 2016 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript for Learning Polish, a memoir about living as a diplomat’s wife in Poland. The award was presented at...
Small Press Network’s MUBA 2016 shortlist announced
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The Small Press Network (SPN) had announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA), sponsored by Booktopia. The shortlisted titles are: The Floating Garden (Emma Ashmere, Spinifex...
Beneba Clarke to deliver Word for Word Festival keynote
Thursday, 3 November 2016
The program has been announced for the third annual Word for Word nonfiction festival, running in Geelong from 18-20 November. Author Maxine Beneba Clarke will deliver the opening keynote address,...
Chan’s ‘Dark Heavens’ series optioned for film
Thursday, 3 November 2016
Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has optioned the film rights to Kylie Chan’s nine-book ‘Dark Heavens’ fantasy series to Hollywood production company Keller Entertainment. Chan’s agent Alex Adsett negotiated the deal...
US children’s book sales up on back of ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Pokemon Go’
Thursday, 3 November 2016
US children’s book sales have risen across both fiction and nonfiction, boosted by the release of ‘Harry Potter’ and Pokemon Go titles, reports the Bookseller. The findings, which were presented...
‘The Chimes’ wins best novel at World Fantasy Awards 2016
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
New Zealand author Anna Smaill’s debut novel The Chimes (Sceptre) has won the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, announced on 30 October at the World Fantasy Convention in...
Scribd adds magazines to subscription service
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
In the US, reading subscription service Scribd has expanded its content to include magazines, with subscribers to have full access to Time, New York, Fortune and The Atlantic magazines among others,...
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